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Towards Personalized Medicine: Computational Approaches For Drug Repurposing And Cell Type Identification, Azam Peyvandipour Jan 2020

Towards Personalized Medicine: Computational Approaches For Drug Repurposing And Cell Type Identification, Azam Peyvandipour

Wayne State University Dissertations

The traditional drug discovery process is extremely slow and costly. More than 90% of drugs fail to pass beyond the early stage of development and toxicity tests, and many of the drugs that go through early phases of the clinical trials fail because of adverse reactions, side effects, or lack of efficiency. In spite of unprecedented investments in research and development (R&D), the number of new FDA-approved drugs remains low, reflecting the limitations of the current R&D model.

In this context, finding new disease indications for existing drugs sidesteps these issues and can therefore increase the available therapeutic choices at …